Sweden looks to Canada as it launches truth commission into treatment of Indigenous people
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RECENT NEWS ON RUSSIAN GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE
Creating a Shared Language of Genocide Prevention Across the Globe
Geraldine Shingoose wasn’t quite sure what to think of the e-mail that landed in her inbox from the Canadian embassy in Sweden. For...
Why the Godfather of Human Rights Is Not Welcome at Harvard
Kenneth Roth, who ran Human Rights Watch for 29 years, was denied a fellowship at the Kennedy School. The reason? Israel. Soon after...
President Lula’s first pro-environment acts protect Indigenous people and the Amazon
Effective Jan. 2, Brazil’s President Lula issued six decrees revoking or altering anti-environment-and-Indigenous measures from his...
Israel is weaponising Palestinian children’s rights
Instead of simply disregarding child rights and international law, Israel is increasingly using them to perfect and justify its violence....
Germany hands over 20 looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
Germany has handed over 20 Benin Bronzes from its museums to Nigeria, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday, making...
Países Bajos: pedido de disculpas por la esclavitud
La Haya El primer ministro de Países Bajos, Mark Rutte, presentó una disculpa en nombre del gobierno neerlandés por su papel en la...
Netherlands formally apologizes for history of slavery, and its impact on descendants
NL Times also published a complete English-language transcript and English-subtitled video of Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s speech at the...
House approves referendum to ‘decolonize’ Puerto Rico
The U.S. House passed a bill Thursday that would allow Puerto Rico to hold the first-ever binding referendum on whether to become a state...
Haiti faces famine – but its troubles are rooted in a brutal colonial past
The Caribbean country has been blighted by colonial exploitation, natural disasters and violent gangs – now a food crisis looms. What can...
‘Doctors fitted a contraceptive coil without my consent’
Bebiane was struggling to fall pregnant before the coil was discovered inside her Thousands of women in Greenland, including some as...
Iraq in the News
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